408 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agrostistaclnj*. 



find no reason to doubt their belonging to one species, and that a very elegant 

 one. 



43. SUXKBAVXA, Baill. 



Trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, broad, 3-nerved, quite 

 or subentire. Flowers in axillary spiciform racemes, monoscious ; males 

 clustered, subsessile ; fern, solitary amongst the males, pedicelled. MALEFL. 

 Calyx globose, membranous, splitting into valvate lobes. Petals 4-5, 

 short. Stamens many, on a convex eglandular receptacle, filaments free ; 

 anthers oblong, erect, dorsifixed, cells 'parallel. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL.. 

 Calyx 5-fid, lobes narrow, imbricate. Petals minute or 0. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 styles recurved, entire ; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 2 2-valved cocci. 

 Species 3, Malayan. 



Differs from Mallotus only in having petals. 



S. macrophylla, Muell. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 482, and in DC. 



Prodr. xv. ii. 727 ; leaves narrowly peltate ovate-oblong or -lanceolate 

 acuminate sides rounded or angled base contracted or rounded 2-glandular. 

 Kurz For. Fl. 376. 



UPPEK BTIEMA ; near the Serpentine Mines, Griffith. PEGU to 

 in forests, Kurz. 



An evergreen tree, 25-35 ft. ; shoots, petioles, leaves beneath and racemes whitish 

 with scurfy tomentum. Leaves 6-12 in., thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, nerves 

 6-8 pairs above the basal, transverse nervules distant ; petiole 2-3| in., tip rather 

 thickened. Racemes shorter than the leaves, pendulous ; flowers -5 in. diam. in 

 bud. Sepals 4, unequal, larger orbicular, concave, tawny, stellate-tomentose. Petals 

 of the male rounded, shorter than the stamens, hyaline. DlsJc of fern, urceolate. 

 Stamens about 70 011 a sparingly pubescent receptacle ; filaments very short, slender ; 

 anthers longer, linear-oblong. Ovary ovoid-oblong, acuminate, densely stellately 

 tomentose; styles. erect, spreading. 1 have seen Griffith's specimens, which arc in 

 male fl. (bud) ; the description of the female is from Kurz. The anthers are dorsi- 

 fixed though far down, not basifixed as described by Kurz in his plant. 



44. CHROZOFHORA, Neck. 



Diffuse, densely hispid or stellately tomentose herbs or undershrubs. 

 Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, wavy or plaited, 2-glandular at 

 the base. Flowers in sessile ^axillary bracteate racemes, monoecious ; bracts 

 1-fld. ; males crowded in the upper part of the raceme; fern, solitary, pedi- 

 celled. MALE FL. Calyx globose or ovoid, splitting into 5 valvate segments. 

 Petals 5, short. Disk obscure. Stamens 5-15, filaments connate below in 

 one or more whorls ; anthers oblong, cells contiguous, parallel. Pistillode 

 0. FEM. FL. Sepals narrow. Petals narrow or 0. Disk-glands short, broad. 

 Ovary 3-celled; styles erect or spreading, 2-fid; ovules 1 in each cell. 

 Capsule of 3 hispid tomentose or scaly subneshy 2-valved cocci. Seeds 

 estrophiolate, testa shining, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 

 Species 4-6, Mediterranean, Asiatic and African. 



1. C. tinctoria, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorl. 28, t. 7, f. 25; annual, 

 prostrate, leaves 1|-2| in. long petioled from ovate and sinuate-toothed 

 or entire to rounded and obtusely lobed, ovaries and capsules stellately tomen- 

 tose and clothed with silvery scales. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 748 ; 



